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There is overwhelming evidence of racial discrimination and the profound sufferings it caused for early Chinese residents in Vancouver. However, this history is also full of stories of people standing up and struggling for equal treatment. Stories like that of Chinese Canadian veterans fighting for re-enfranchisement, that of the Chinese soccer team pushing racial boundaries to create an equal playing field, and that of Vivian Jung and her classmates challenging racial segregation at Crystal Pool remind us that in overcoming discrimination, Chinese Canadians also helped to make Canada a better place.
Chinatowns were the direct product of the rising use of the politics of white supremacy in the 19th century to build new settler nations such as Canada and the United States. This worldwide phenomenon of legalized racism also created an organized response from the victims it targeted, a long-term struggle that transformed into an equally global process that dismantled legalized racism in the mid-20th century. Vancouver’s Chinatown, because of its intact and living cultural heritage, is an outstanding representative site to tell this larger story of struggle, resilience, and hope.
Henry Yu
Professor Henry Yu was born in Vancouver, B.C., and grew up in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. He received his BA in Honours History from UBC and an MA and PhD in History from Princeton University. After teaching at UCLA for a decade, Yu returned to UBC as an Associate Professor of History to help build programs focused on trans-Pacific Canada. Yu himself is both a second and fourth generation Canadian. His parents were first generation immigrants from China, joining a grandfather who had spent almost his entire life in Canada. His great-grandfather was also an early Chinese pioneer in British Columbia, part of a larger networks of migrants who left Zhongshan county in Guangdong province in South China and settled around the Pacific in places such as Australia, New Zealand, Hawai’i, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, the United States, and Canada. Prof. Yu’s book, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America (Oxford University Press, 2001) won the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize as the Most Distinguished Book of 2001, and he is currently working on a book entitled How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Finding Ourselves in History. Currently, he is the Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research on Chinese Canadians (INSTRCC) and the Principal of St. John’s College at UBC, as well as a Board Member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia (CCHSBC).
Editors : Sarah Ling, Szu Shen, Baldwin Wong
Translator : Szu Shen
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